Envelop and advertising device.



APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1911.

Ptentd Oct. 1, 1912.

Mr Richard-Roe.

ATTORNEYS 'may be sealed.

Pennsylvania,

"such as, for example,

JOHN G. PATTON, or rnrthnnnrnm, PENNSYLVANIA.

ENvELor AND aiavnn'rrsme, nnvrcn.

Specification 0! Letters Iatent. Application filed June 22, 1911. Serial No; e34,79e.-

To all who'm it may concern:

, Be it known that I, JOHN G. PAqrroN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of have invented a new and useful Envelop and Advertising Device, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention consists of a novel construction of an envelop and advertising device which is especially adapted tobe employed for mail order purposes and is constructed in such a manner that a portion thereof serves as a return envelop which may be sealed in the same manner as an ordinary envelop;

It further consists pf a novel,construction of an envelop and advertising device wherein one face of the envelop is designed wholly for advertising matter, while the other face of the envelop is provided with apertures whereby the tab sections nTay be interlocked therewith, such tab sections being constructed in such a'mannerf that they may be detached or torn oif, and the envelop portion remaining is adapted to. be sealed and returned to the original writer.

Itfurther consists of a novel construction of an envelop wherein the envelop portion is provided with an elongated tab forming, when folded, sections of substantiallyuniform dimensions, and one of the sections the section nearestthe envelop, having a weakened portion andiadhesive material in proximity to the weakened portion, whereby when-the desired portion of the tab section is detached, a return envelop is provided which My. invention further consists of a novel construction of an envelop and advertising. device which may be mailed as second class matter, and wherein a return envelop is formed when a desired portion of the tab is removed, such envelop being adapted to be sealed so that the sal nemay be transmitted through the mails as first class matter.

It further consists of other novel features of construction, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth. 1

nor the purpose of. illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying.

. drawing one form thereof which is'at pres ent pre rred by me, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, although 1t is to be underftion on line w-m of which is of The section2 is' the various instrumentalities of which a invention consists can be variously arrange and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and descrioed.

,Figure 1 representsa pers ective view of ah envelop and advertising. evice embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a sec- Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a plan view showing the return envelop after the tab sections have been detached. Fig, 4

stood that represents a perspective view of-my device showing the same as partly folded.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, in one of my rior Patents No. 958,166, granted to me 'May 17 1910,'I have described and broadly claimed a novel structure of an envelop and advertising device in tab sections are formed which are adapted to interlock with one or more apertures located in one side of the envelop and my present invention while embodying some o the features of-my prior patent to which I have herein above referred, enables me to utilize the envelop as a return envelop.-

In my prior Patent No. 954,336, patented April 5, 1910, I have described and broadly claimed a novel construction of a theater ticket envelop and advertising device which is formed from an integral blank of material and provided with an elongated flap adapted tofreceive the diagram of a theater, steamer, railroad car orany other advertising matter. My present construction while it is adapted to be employed for such purposes,-

which a plurality of.

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if desired, is especially designed to be used 1 in conjunction with a mail order business and is constructed in sucha manner that it can be made from an integral blank of material and all of the advertising matter may be placed thereon at a singleoperation if desired.

l designates an envelop and advertising device embodying my invention, consisting of a blank of material which is divided-into envelop forming sections 2 and 3,.the section 2 being preferably of less the, same I width than the section 3 whereby when the envelop is formed by folding over the side tabs 4, anenvelop will be formed one side less width than the other. designed to receive the rep which preferably extend to th tions such as, for

' and may v same having preferably previously located siv material 10 of anyd being designed that after the, envelop and turn address and advertising device is received, the sections 6, 7 and 8 can be detached at 9, after which the envelop appears, as indicated in Fig. 3, be used as a return envelop, the

thereon the address of the sender. The back of the section 6 is designedto have thereon the address and to receive the stamp, as indicated in sition of the same on the return envelop is indicated by dotted lines at 12 in Figs. 3

and 4. hesections 6 and 7 by the weakened line 13 and sections 7 and 8 may be separated by the weakened line 14, whereby the different sections may be separately detached if desired.

After the envelop has been addressed the sections 6, 7 and 8 are folded, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, thereby covering the re turn address and the ends of the sections 6 and 7 will extend into the slits or apertures 5, as seen, in Fig. 1, so that the device may be mailed as second class matter and at the same time it will be securely sealed so that there will be no likelihood of the same becoming accidentally opened during transit. It will be apparent that the location and nature of the slits 5 may be varied as desired and also the length of the tab section as e size of the envelop.

may be spaced face of the section 2 of the envelop so that the envelop will be securely sealed and room will be left for the aifixing of a stamp. The

i the return bodies the features atedas desirable in the statement of the indotted lines at 11, while the p0-- b l engage the outer.

tab sections are preferably of less width than the envelop sections. Special attention is directed to the fact that the side of the envelop which has the return address thereon is covered by the tab sections when the envelop is originally mailed so that there is no possibility of the canceling stamp appearing on the face of envelop, as Wlll be evident to those skilled in th tion appertains.

It Wlll now be apparent that I have devised a novel and useful construction of an envelop and advertising device which emof advantage enumervention and the above description, and in the present instance, shown and described a preferred embodiment thereof which has been found in practice to give satisfactory'and reliable results, it is to e understood that the same is susceptible the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An envelop and advertising device, consisting of a blank of material separated into a plurality of envelop and tab sections, one envelop section being secured to an adjoining section, whereby a complete envelop is formed, one side of said envelop being provided with an aperture with which the tab sections interlock when folded to form the flap of the primary envelop for the sender, the tab section nearest said envelop having a weakened lien and a strip of adhesive in proximity to said line, whereby when the tab sections are separated along the weakened line, a return envelop is formed for the sendee mailable as first or second class matter, and the portion left of said tab forming the flap of the return envelop.

JOHN G. PATTON.

Witnesses:

H. S. FAIRBANKS, G. D. MOVAY.

e art to which this inven-.

Correctlen in Letters" Patent No. 1,040,004.

It is hereby eertified that in Letters Pig-tent No. 1,00,004, granted October 1912, upon the application of John G. Patton, of hiladelphiii, Pennsylvania, f01" an improvexnent in Envelofp and Advertising -De v'ices an error appeare in the prfnted specifieation requiringeotreetion as folloifst Page 2, line 90 ,ifor the word lien and that the said Letters Patent ehonl d be read with this cor feetion ther ein that the same may conform to the recerdbf theeaee inthe Patent ofiice Signed and sealed this'22d day of A; D., 1912. J

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